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[crisis_control]

"Fancy seeing you here," Vorkosigan said, and helped himself to his bottle. "Simon."

"Don't drink that," Simon said quickly. "That's--"

Too late. Vorkosigan made a face and gave him a look. "Trying to kill yourself by alcohol? There are cleaner ways of doing it." The sardonic lilt to his voice suggested that he had thought of all of them.

"You would know," Simon mumbled, and pulled the bottle closer to him. "What are you doing here?"

"What are you doing here?" Vorkosigan said. "This is my watering hole."


Rather productive weekend! Drunk!Simon is surprisingly rambly. And this story is turning into Simon's story, when it should have been Aral's...

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[philomytha]

Simon does tend to do that! :-D And both of them at it now, how on earth are they going to extricate themselves from this one?

[crisis_control]

Aral is surprisingly quite the gentleman - he won't get completely smashed when he has someone else to look after. Clearly this is why he was sober during the Regency...